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Terror Sweat posted:unfortunately the tree has spent too long being bent and has grown too big and stiff to bend back. the only thing you can do is pull it out from the roots WILLOWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
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zegermans posted:Twitter in general is a pile of poo poo for political discourse and should be shut down. This thread is in fact a better platform for arguing about poo poo, and it sucks! well yeah, twitter is the worst platform for everything except for breaking news updates
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Crowsbeak posted:I thought he was a progressive? this is a very recent development in the history of Ro Khanna
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Vox Nihili posted:well yeah, twitter is the worst platform for everything except for breaking news updates its there to shitpost at talking heads, a job it does better than anything else
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Vox Nihili posted:well yeah, twitter is the worst platform for everything except for breaking news updates those reports are like always wrong though
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Crowsbeak posted:I thought he was a progressive? he tried to primary my congressman from the right in 2014 and failed, then tried from the left in 2016 and succeeded. he got a lot of tech and finance bux to replace a successful, long-serving progressive congressman my hope is that he will just keep faking it until hes indistinguishable from an actual progressive. hes basically still in the process of inventing himself politically Vox Nihili has issued a correction as of 17:17 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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zegermans posted:those reports are like always wrong though nah, you just need to follow the right sources. it can actually be pretty helpful. it was definitely the top way to get up to the minute info for, e.g., predictit gambling (short of having insider info)
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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:https://twitter.com/Ah_occ_o/status/874026453716934656 gonna own when the leftist west is in a cold war with hard right eastern europe
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Terror Sweat posted:unfortunately the tree has spent too long being bent and has grown too big and stiff to bend back. the only thing you can do is pull it out from the roots zegermans posted:WILLOWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT. The way willows work is they appear big and strong until one day the suddenly crack in half and you realize that the core had been rotting for years. Take whatever lesson you want from that.
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zegermans posted:WILLOWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT. willows are lame
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Zeta Taskforce posted:The way willows work is they appear big and strong until one day the suddenly crack in half and you realize that the core had been rotting for years. Take whatever lesson you want from that.  Bern it all down
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Vox Nihili posted:he tried to primary my congressman from the right in 2014 and failed, then tried from the left in 2016 and succeeded. he got a lot of tech and finance bux to replace a successful, long-serving progressive congressman yup http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2014/10/15/ca17-khanna-mailer-honda-letter-create-buzz/
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:yup http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2014/10/15/ca17-khanna-mailer-honda-letter-create-buzz/ TFW you throw out an internment camp survivor, former public school teacher, and lifelong public transit advocate (who literally procured the funds that make our local system work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Honda#Major_appropriations) for a tech bro
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Vox Nihili posted:TFW you throw out an internment camp survivor, former public school teacher, and lifelong public transit advocate (who literally procured the funds that make our local system work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Honda#Major_appropriations) for a tech bro ro khanna is the worst
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Joementum posted:just makes it easier for the right to take over next time when you kill enthusiasm with technocracy low-turnout low-engagement elections that are won by centrist technocrat types is kind of the best possible outcome for the washington consensus type of government. it was of course perfected in the US and to a lesser extent the UK and only recently went slightly awry in electing trump so prepare for 1000 takes in the nyt and wapo editorial pages about how france has just joined germany as the last bastions of western government
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Shear Modulus posted:low-turnout low-engagement elections that are won by centrist technocrat types is kind of the best possible outcome for the washington consensus type of government. it was of course perfected in the US and to a lesser extent the UK and only recently went slightly awry in electing trump so prepare for 1000 takes in the nyt and wapo editorial pages about how france has just joined germany as the last bastions of western government german elections actually have high turnout though (>70%)
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Agean90 posted:its there to shitpost at talking heads, a job it does better than anything else Posting flippant zingers at people who sniff their own farts is cool and extremely good
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Nonsense posted:modems no problems lol @ Bayrou becoming relevant by hanging to Macron's coattails. Also the french election is a really annoying tale of the french left's inability to coordinate for more than a few months. France Insoumise vote share in a lot of places would have given them very close to the vote tallies needed to win first rounds, and in most of those they're not even making the runoffs because they ran like 4-5 candidates against each other instead.
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Vox Nihili posted:german elections actually have high turnout though (>70%) i guess germans are just super enthusiastic to vote for bankers and technocrats
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Zeta Taskforce posted:The way willows work is they appear big and strong until one day the suddenly crack in half and you realize that the core had been rotting for years. Take whatever lesson you want from that. 
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Willow would've won Now say that 10 times fast.
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Agnosticnixie posted:lol @ Bayrou becoming relevant by hanging to Macron's coattails. the socialist party also successfully scuttled itself into political death to punish their voters for voting for hamon, so that's cool
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Ro Khanna unseated Mike Honda using gobs of Silicon Valley money. I mean, it'd be nice if people like he and Kristen Gillibrand suddenly grew a conscience and/or saw where the wind was blowing, but then I remember that Gavin Newsom was once married to Kim Guilfoyle.
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Shear Modulus posted:i guess germans are just super enthusiastic to vote for bankers and technocrats well their society is operating pretty nicely so the status quo doesnt look nearly as lovely there as it does here
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Shear Modulus posted:i guess germans are just super enthusiastic to vote for bankers and technocrats Generally germanys economic planning and social systems have been working out well for them so aren't really a hotbed of resentment like other western democracies. Remember Germany already has tuition free schools and college.
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the trick with germany is they are sticking with the old-style system where the immiseration and rent extraction is outsourced to other countries
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Shear Modulus posted:the trick with germany is they are sticking with the old-style system where the immiseration and rent extraction is outsourced to other countries Yeah was about to post this. Centers of imperialism naturally tend towards conservative dominance in politics.
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Shear Modulus posted:the trick with germany is they are sticking with the old-style system where the immiseration and rent extraction is outsourced to other countries That more has to do with the euro currency system being fundamentally flawed (though it's perpetuated by Germany having no issue with the status quo) which results in nations whose economies fall apart having huge snowball issues. I don't really know what the current political trends are in Germany but Austria recently elected a loving green party member president so lol
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Shear Modulus posted:the trick with germany is they are sticking with the old-style system where the immiseration and rent extraction is outsourced to other countries Pener Kropoopkin posted:Yeah was about to post this. Centers of imperialism naturally tend towards conservative dominance in politics. This excellent Max Streeck essay in the LRB describes that aspect of German political economy at length. I would post excerpts but I'm still recovering from the Pens Stanley Cup win so someone else will have to do it.
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Joementum posted:this is a very recent development in the history of Ro Khanna Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are well known for fulfilling promises
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lol at electing some silicon valley billionaire and expecting him to fight for the poor
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paranoid randroid posted:Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are well known for fulfilling promises the juicero of progressives
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Concerned Citizen posted:the juicero of progressives lol
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In some ways, it's actually good that we're seeing political opportunists disguise themselves as progressives, because they wouldn't be bothering if they didn't think there was something to gain in appealing to progressive ideas. Doesn't make them good, but it's a good sign.
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A great example of how individual Germans at least view workers rights is that when Wal-mart tried to expand into Germany they were partially ran out of business because German shoppers hated how much walmart demeaned it's own employee's.
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Concerned Citizen posted:the juicero of progressives
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Concerned Citizen posted:in ro's case, it's blatantly because he knows the only possible threat to him in that district is a challenge from another democrat, and he thinks by hugging bernie he neutralizes that threat and if he keeps it up, hes right
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